Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Preamble: Music and Musicing, Self and the World -- Early Assimilations: Influences and Effects of Music from Childhood Onward -- Sunfield Children's Homes, Anthroposophy and Rudolf Steiner: Laying the Groundwork for Creative Music Therapy -- The Time, the Place, and the People: Herbert Geuter and Paul Nordoff Arrive on the Scene -- Pif-Paf-Poltrie and the Fusing of the Team: The Beginnings of Group Music Therapy, the Roles of Composition -- Creative Empiricism: The Beginnings of Individual Music Therapy -- Finding My Place in the Healing Heart of Creative Musicing -- The Fact-Finding European-Scandinavian Tour and Learning More about Curative Education: Determining Future Directions -- Founding Creative Music Therapy in the United States: Important Pilot Projects -- Under Kansas Skies -- The Return to Pennsylvania: Important New Opportunities, Further Advances -- Completing the Founding of Creative Music Therapy -- Toward the Profession of Music Therapy: The Challenges of Sharing and Communicating, Seeking Informed Colleagueship and Common Ground -- The Widening Dissemination I: With Paul in Scandinavia and Europe -- Connections Forming with Germany, England, and Australia. Hopeful News from the USA. Enter the Music Child -- Change and Transition. The Dividing Team. Australia and New Zealand. Medical Necessities -- Amazing England: Westminster Abbey, the World of Rock Music, and the Silver Clef-The Key to the Future -- Reaching the Music Child within the Deaf Child. Connections Forming with New York University. Healing at Herdecke -- Development and Diversity on the Move: Herdecke Plays a Further Role -- The NYSSD Curriculum Development Program Nears Completion. "New Dimensions of Joy" -- The Widening Dissemination II: With Carol in the USA. Closer Ties with NAMT. Texan Experiences.

Productive Adventures in Australia -- Links between Sunfield and NYU. Meetings with Hep Geuter. The Retreat at Phoenicia. Creation and Love: Emmanuel's Contribution -- The Call to Return: Establishing the Nordoff-Robbins Center for Music Therapy at New York University. Knebworth. The First Years -- Continuing On. Fundamental Changes in Music Therapy, USA. The Turn toward Asia -- Unfinished Modulation: Intimations of Homo Musicus -- Audrey in Music Therapy -- Audrey: Coda -- Appendix -- Selected Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Bibliography.